[c-nsp] BGP support on the new ASA5585-X

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On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 07:14:58PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 29/10/2010 18:24, srg wrote:
>> At this moment we know that ASA5585-X does not support BGP.
>
> I'm sure it doesn't.  Routers are routers, firewalls are firewalls.
>
> Probably some day, someone will build something which incorporates  
> everything from both routers and firewalls.  It will be the networking  
> equivalent of this:

If the firewall can build null routes to distribute to the edge routers, BGP is a very usefull feature.  I know one of the major DPI boxes uses BGP to reroute "bad" traffic for scrubbing.

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Brian Raaen
Network Architech